Thank you to Marvin Macaraig for your insightful lecture about developing a cycle culture in Scarborough!

Any infrastructure that can handle 4.3 million trips in a year and take them out of cars and transit is a success.

My latest paper is just out, on Critical Junctures, developing a comparative-historical conceptual framework for the analysis of rapid change of major urban governance and planning institutions. Open access, free to download and share doi.org/10.1080/026654… #planning #history

It is time to build #GreenwayNetwork throughout the Greater Toronto Area.

Time for the City of Toronto to take maintenance seriously. And please don't use bike lanes as a place to dump snow!

This hike in Scarborough along the Meadoway looks like fun. In support of the Greenbelt, Saturday nov 26th scarboroughjunction.org/2022/11/west-s…

1/10 Is Zoning a Problem? What Kind? A🧵: In the current debate about #affordablehousing in #Toronto, zoning restrictions are frequently cited as the culprit (#Bill23). These zones are accused of standing in the way of higher-density, multi-residential, affordable buildings.

The Mobility Network just released this story on an event I participated in last month, focused on the work of Bruce Appleyard: mobilitynetwork.utoronto.ca/livable-street… Some big ideas about the importance of shifting the way we think about and build streets.

Sometimes, major social institutions change rapidly, so it is important that we try to understand the factors that allow such changes, and those that shape outcomes. change

Great work Jeff Allen @[email protected] ! this will be useful! #torontomaps

10 important questions about the Ontario Place deal! Read and share this.

Great news. The Ford government has provoked a constitutional crisis, and has created an opportunity to change the rules of the game in this province. No government should ever be allowed to abrogate basic norms of governance again.

We need to make Toronto’s busses more efficient, not less frequent. Invest now in transit priority lanes and intersections. #Topoli thestar.com/opinion/contri…

How to avoid a Toronto transit death spiral, thanks Steve Farber! #mobilitynetwork #torontotransit thestar.com/opinion/contri…

A short video about our Scarborough Greenway Network proposal: lnkd.in/gfUTx_cc

Lots of low-hanging fruit still in building more sustainable built environments! Most buildings last over 50 years, so what we build now will have a long tail. We can do so much better. lnkd.in/gQ_qQFGm

Mobility Network Update for January 19, 2023 - mailchi.mp/0ba8a015c353/m… In the media * Video: Scarborough Greenway Network Andre Sorensen * New Centre for the Sustainable Built Environment * Brendon Hemily recognition * Events * Calls * Opportunities * Resources

No one who stands to benefit from government decisions should be giving money to the Premier’s family members. Ford has betrayed the public trust, destroyed public confidence in the government and eroded the integrity of the Premier’s office. #onpoli bit.ly/3DZjKxF

So important to remember this pattern of PC gifts to wealthy developers.

Taking critical junctures seriously: theory and method for causal analysis of rapid institutional change tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…